James Kelly of Castlecomer is a familiar name to us all by now. At the Battle of Clontarf he fought his own running battle and emerged as the 5th athlete home in a useful time of 56 min and 25 seconds. Casting aside the suit of armour, spear, shovel and horse on this occassion, the […]
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2019 Leinster Juvenile Indoors
February 26, 2019 
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Fantastic and amazing – are the words that can be used to describe our athletes. With Fiona Dillon (Thomastown) setting not just one – but two championship best performances in the u15 800m and 1500m. And Jordan Knight (St Josephs) smashing the u17 400m best performance in the heats – only to do it all […]
Continue reading 2018 Leinster unevens/senior Adamstown
November 15, 2018 0 Comments
A great crowd had gathered in a field in the middle of nowhere, to watch lots of people running around in atrocious weather- while this crowd themselves got absolutely saturated. Thunder and lightening resonated overhead, hailstones fell and still the crowd remained. You just have to ask yourselves the question – have they all gone […]
Continue reading 2018 Leinster Evens XCountry – Novice Navan
November 15, 2018 0 Comments
Navan is the perfect palindrome, but there was nothing palindromic about our athletes performances this weekend at the Leinster Even Age Juvenile championships in Navan. We are pushing the standards up and have emerged from the first day as join lead of the best overall county in Leinster. With so much emerging talent in the […]
Continue reading 2018 Leinster Championships u/14-19s
June 19, 2018 0 Comments
It is not every day an athlete gets to set a new record in Athletics. This weekend saw four new Leinster records set by Kilkenny athletes in the Leinster Juvenile Track and Field Championships in Tullamore. The championships opened on a positive note when, in the first event of the day Tadgh Connolly (St Senans) […]
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County 10k Championships
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